That rate is 136 percent higher than the annual sales rate in January, although it is about half the pre-recession sales pace.

Numbers are encouraging enough for Airstream to increase production 30 percent in the past month and a half. RV maker Keystone RV is hiring an additional 200 workers to handle the increased demand, the newspaper said.

It would suggest the worst of the (stock market) decline seems to be over, and the consumer is in a position to come back, said Morton Marcus, an economist who studies the RV market.